Rosie O’Donnell confirmed to return to ‘The View’ as co-host

Rosie O'Donnell (center) returned to ‘The View’ to a standing ovation when she appeared as a guest in February. (Lou Rocco/ABC)

"The View" just got a little bit rosier!

After much speculation, ABC has officially confirmed that Rosie O'Donnell will be returning to the longtime daytime talk show as co-host for season 18.

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The announcement, which was first made on the show's Twitter account Thursday morning, comes after buzz that the former co-host was mulling a small screen comeback shortly after Jenny McCarthy and Sherri Sherpherd were given their pink slips.

Part of the shakeup is said to involve executive producer Bill Geddie moving on to special projects at the network, though ABC has denied his departure from "The View."

Among the many issues between the two is their lingering animosity after O'Donnell's 2007 dustup with Elisabeth Hasselbeck over the Iraq war. In that fight, Geddie egged on the right-wing Hasselbeck via her earpiece and cut to a cable news-type split-screen of the duo going head to head.

Geddie's move had upset O'Donnell so much that she asked to be let out of her contract a month before it expired. She was allowed to leave immediately and often credits the dispute as the catalyst for her sudden exit.